250 to 26 per lb
Golden shiners
The farm's benchmark species, hatched by the billion and in stock twelve months a year, from #4 fry-size to 4 inch brooders.
Minnows raised on 3,400 Lonoke acres
Golden shiners, fatheads and Black Salty, shipped overnight to your door.
What size shiner should I order?
Start with the species, then the size. Every fish the farm sells is graded by width and sold by the pound, so a box is weighed, not counted.
Forage and bait
Fathead minnows
As forage species go, there is no substitute for the fathead. Small, medium and large, plus pink fatheads and feeders.
Patented, farm raised
Black Salty
Neal Anderson's patented baitfish for fresh and salt water. If it eats baitfish, it will eat a Black Salty.
Feeder to pool size
Goldfish
Feeder, trotline and pool goldfish, from 1,500 to the pound down to 12 fish of four and a half inches and up.
Forage and game fish
Pond stocking
Northern bluegill, largemouth bass, triploid grass carp and rainbow trout juveniles for a pond that needs a food chain.
Guaranteed to arrive frozen
Frozen and freeze-dried
1 lb bags, solid blocks frozen with no water, and freeze-dried shiners that are grain and gluten free.
From the farm shelf
Aquaculture supplies
Better Bait, Finer Shiner, LCR chlorine remover, fish bags and air pumps, the kit the farm uses on its own fish.
Golden shiner grades
Graded by width, sold by the pound.
All fish are graded by width, so length and counts are approximate. The farm hatches golden shiners by the billion and carries them twelve months a year, which is why the chart runs from fry-size #4 all the way to brooders.
Golden shiner sizes and boxes| Grade | Drawn to scale, 0 to 4 inches | Per lb / box |
|---|---|---|
| #4 | 1½ in | 250 1,000 in a 4 lb box |
| #6 | 2¼ in | 166 664 in a 4 lb box |
| #12 | 3 in | 83 415 in a 5 lb box |
| #20 | 3½ in | 50 250 in a 5 lb box |
| Brooder | 4 in | 26 130 in a 5 lb box |
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The hatchery, Hwy. 70 West
Over one billion fry a season.
The farm's 11,000-square-foot hatchery is capable of producing over one billion fry per season, and its feed storage was upgraded to accommodate five million pounds of feed annually to keep up.
Loading floor
Netted, weighed and loaded with as little stress as the farm can manage.
Loading runs on custom-made buckets and forklifts with digital scales built into the forks, and the trucks load under a rainproof roof. Some of the crew have been doing it for 25 to 30 years.
Google review
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The World's Largest Minnow Farm
Four generations, one address, a lot of ponds.
- 1949
- The year the Andersons planted the farm on flat, well-watered land just west of Lonoke, after I.F. “Andy” Anderson ran a bait route up from Mississippi.
- 3,400 acres
- of surface water in ponds, producing more than a billion minnows a year.
- Patented
- The Black Salty, developed on the farm by Neal Anderson for fresh and salt water.
- USDA APHIS
- Inspected and certified, on the farm’s freeze-dried minnows.
- AGFC, 2025
- Jamie Anderson, who runs the farm today, was appointed to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission.
Ship days: Monday and Thursday
Orders close at 10:00 a.m. on ship day.
Live fish leave the farm twice a week, year round, and land by Federal Express overnight. The farm guarantees they arrive alive and healthy.